Marcus, Wes, and Charles discuss Phantom Blade Zero's impact on the action genre and some stellar indies, then we interview The Onion about their new voting simulator game.
We traveled to Chengdu, China, to check out Eclipse Glow Games’ debut game, Tides of Annihilation, and talk with the team about mixing Chinese action with the Legend of King Arthur.
There are terrible bad games that you should avoid at all costs, mediocre bad games that disappear from your memory when they leave your field of view, and then there is the difficult-to-define good bad game.
Backed up by a fun campaign, thrilling multiplayer, and loads of new modes and content, Modern Warfare 4 serves as a solid sendoff for the rebooted subseries.
This goes the extra mile with an impressive diversity of map types and victory conditions, board game-like competition with other rulers, and multiple vectors for expanding your power and influence.
Shigeru Miyamoto states "You can think of it in terms of something
similar to Super Mario World or New Super Mario Bros. Wii, where you
will have a rather convenient map to navigate."
This week The[Crafty]Gamer features NYC pianist and composer, Rob
Kovacs. Check out his piano interpretation of Mega Man's Air Man theme,
find out what it takes to learn to play classic 8-bit tunes on live instruments, and more.
Among this week's highlights were more Portal 2 features, a look at the
making of our Game Infarcer cover, and a couple of video game ads that
were actually funny. Go figure. It's time for the Week In Review!
